15% of construction jobs go

Tag : construction and building
It is the lowest reading since the CSO study began in January 2000and marks the start of the builders' holiday sparking fears manymore will be out of work after the break. The figures also revealedan increasing pace of job losses in the sector.

The CSO said the monthly construction index figure for May wasbased on trends in approximately 1,000 private building firms withfive or more staff. The figures also revealed more than 1% of thoseworkers were laid off in May.